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Shifts in B2B Buyer Behavior Support New Priorities for Demand Gen Content

The Point

Demand Gen Report has published the results of this year’s “B2B Buyer’s Survey,” and the trends identified merit close attention for those marketers involved in B2B demand generation and content development. 72% of B2B Buyers quote timely response to inquiries as a key factor in vendor selection via @spearmktg. Click To Tweet.

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7 not-quite-predictions for marketing technology in 2016

chiefmartech

The lines between software vendors and service providers blurred a little — Merkle, Experian, Alliance Data come to mind — but not as much as I would have expected. (C+). 2016 is the year we hit “peak martech” in the marketing technology vendor landscape. ” (A). Martech is going mainstream.

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Countdown to 2016

ANNUITAS

How can marketers plan effectively for 2016 and still work to wrap up 2015 before the clock strikes midnight on December 31 st ? If you planned strategically, thinking in terms of building a perpetual Demand Generation Strategy versus a tactical approach, end of year is not a mad rush to rustle up a few last minute deals.

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5 Predictions for Influencer Marketing in 2016

Onalytica B2B

Influencer marketing now makes up a significant part of marketing budgets and according to a report by Tomson , 59% of marketers have plans to increase their influencer marketing budget in 2016. More than ever 2016 will see brands using employees as advocates, to seek the trust and loyalty of their customers.

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A Structured Approach to Demand Generation Analytics

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One analytics vendor after another is selling you on their ability to analyze and make sense of “any” data. Demand generation leaders know it’s not true, though. So what is the key to better demand generation analytics? We must take a different approach — a structured approach — to demand generation analytics.

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Avoiding The Predictive Analytics #Fail In Demand Generation

ANNUITAS

*This post first ran in Demand Gen Report , April 19, 2016. We’re all running at the shiny object but not really thinking through what it means to really build and leverage predictive analytics as a component of outcome-based demand generation. Everybody’s doing it, right? Are you doing it? Probably not. Why is this?

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You May Be Surprised At The Biggest B2B Marketing Responsibility Of 2016

Marketing Insider Group

You May Be Surprised at the # 1 B2B Marketing Responsibility of 2016. Managing “marketing technology tools” and “market/competitor analysis” round out the top three marketing duties predicted for 2016, representing 76% and 75% of respondents, respectively. Why Customers? But it has never been so important to try and understand them.